So I sent in my husbands app for PR in May. I didn't add pictures of anything...we actually don't have pictures of anything together. He's not a very photogenic guy. Anyway, I figured, the fact that we have a child together should be enough....shouldn't it? I am hoping that since we have a little boy together that it validates our relationship.
I hope so, too - but it's not likely that having a child together will be enough. There are too many people who try to lie and cheat to get into Canada - too many false marriages/relationships. You are required to document your relationship - how it developed, that you're in contact now on a regular basis (with proof of that), that you share a life to the extent that it's possible to do so. What did you include as proof of your genuine relationship besides the fact that you share a child? (I don't say this from my standpoint, but theirs) claiming to have a child together without anything else isn't enough. Even having a child together does not make a relationship "genuine" in their eyes. Coupled with other proofs, it makes a stronger case - but without anything else, you're at a real disadvantage.
I see from a couple of your other posts that you filed an inland application and it was received just six months ago. That means they haven't even looked at it yet. Depending on what you did send as proof of your relationship, you might want to scramble and send more and hope they match it with your application before they open it and start doubting your relationship. If that happens, the case will be transferred to your local office, probably for an interview to verify that your relationship is, indeed, genuine - and that could mean a delay of up to a year or more depending on how busy that particular office is. And there's no right of appeal with an inland ap.
ditto robsluv
It really depends on what you did submit. No photos at all might raise a flag. If your husband is an American, just filing via the inland process might raise a flag anyway (since there is usually no good reason for an American to file via the inland process versus the outland). But if the two of you have been together for quite some time and that is otherwise fairly well-documented in what you did submit, the absence of photos probably will not change anything substantially.
If you submitted a minimal amount of evidentiary proof of the genuineness of the relationship, then you will probably have to simply wait for a local office to process the case and attend an interview to ascertain the genuiness of the relationship. An attempt to supplement the application sooner rather than later may help, but if the app was so slim that additional proof will really make the difference, I tend to think that sending it in now is not going to forestall a referral to the local office.
You mostly, probably, are going to need to be patient and slog this one out.
I did not submit any photos at all. ****! I just thought, and I guess I shouldnt have, that the fact that we have a child together should be enough. We did not have a wedding, as we were married at a justice of the peace...we did not take pictures. We have intentions for having a 'real wedding' one with guests, and a dress, and family and friends. For the first year, although I am not proud to say it, I was having an affair. So our relationship was being hidden. No pictures, no nothing. My ex husband and my now husband, were both in the US army and my ex was trying to get my now husband in trouble with his command, so we kept it very low key. He knew there was something going on, but without pictures or proof, our relationship was a secret. Anyway, that is why we have no picture of anything. I do however, have pictures of the last 2 christmas' and birthdays of us altogether. Should I send those in? Would those be enough?
Sorry for the long story.
Kristi
You don't say what you did send. That is the more important part of the equation. Yes, having a child together weighs a great deal. It matters that you are an Am and a Canadian, and that the circumstances in which the relationship began and flourished are fairly common, so it is not as if they are likely to suspect a scheme to get him into Canada fraudulently. So if you sent in a decent quantity of proof, I would not worry. Worst case scenario is he is called for an interview. If so, take the photos you have, plus the ones you begin to take now (buy a disposable camera if necessary, just to get a few more photos, especially photos of you together with the baby), plus whatever additional evidence you can put together.
But it really depends on whether or not you submitted at least some documentary proof with the original app.